For more than a decade, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has made investments in networks of diverse group of organizations and champions to come together to build public will and systems for afterschool and summer learning. Now reaching every state, the 50 State Afterschool Network fosters partnerships and policies to develop, support, and sustain high-quality opportunities for children and youth.

Explore key resources and research about the power of afterschool and summer learning for promoting student success and providing opportunities to build skills and explore future careers. Learn about compelling data, best practices, and examples through: (1) Afterschool Compendium, (2) Research and Data, (3) Additional Resources.

50 State Afterschool Network

Afterschool Leadership Circle is a coalition that develops partnerships, informs policies, and shapes practices that sustain and increase the number of quality youth programs across Rhode Island.

About the Rhode Island Network

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The Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence works to improve access to high quality, accessible and affordable out-of-school learning opportunities for all Arizona children and youth by serving as the pre-eminent source for professional development, advocacy and community capacity building in the out-of-school time community.

About the Arizona Network

Yes

The goal of the Arkansas Out of School Network (AOSN) is to strengthen, expand and sustain Arkansas’ school-based and school-linked services to children and youth, ages five to 19 during OST.

The Connecticut After School Network is a partnership of individuals and organizations promoting young people’s safety, healthy development and learning outside the traditional classroom.

About the Connecticut Network

Yes

The mission of the Florida Afterschool Network (FAN) is to provide unified leadership to advocate for the development, enhancement and sustainability of innovative, high-quality afterschool programs and policies statewide.

About the Florida Network

Yes

The Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network (GSAN) is a public-private collaborative that envisions a day when all communities in Georgia have the resources to provide exceptional afterschool programming.

About the Georgia Network

Yes

The ACT Now Coalition works towards ensuring that young people in Illinois have access to quality, affordable afterschool and youth development programs.

About the Illinois Network

Yes

The Indiana Afterschool Network is a nonprofit organization that inspires, empowers, and mobilizes the advocates, partners, and practitioners of afterschool and summer programs in Indiana.

About the Indiana Network

Yes

The Iowa Afterschool Alliance (IAA) works to develop strong statewide systems of support for high-quality, affordable, and accessible before school, after school, and summer programs.

About the Iowa Network

Yes

The Kansas Enrichment Network is a collaboration of agencies and organizations in Kansas that helps build and expand school-based programs to enhance learning opportunities for students, and provides technical assistance to new and established programs.

About the Kansas Network

Yes

The Kentucky Out-of-School Alliance (KYOSA) serves as the infrastructure to support the continued growth, development and accessibility of quality out-of-school time (OST) programs to promote the success of children and youth.

About the Kentucky Network

Yes

The Louisiana Center for Afterschool Learning is a growing collaboration of local, regional and statewide organizations working together to improve the quality and access of afterschool, summer and youth programs.

About the Louisiana Network

Yes

The purpose of the Maine After School Network (MASN) is to enable every child to have access to quality, inclusive, affordable after school programming that meets the needs of the child, the family and the community.

About the Maine Network

Yes

The Maryland Out of School Time Network is a coalition to expand funding, implement effective policies and increase program quality in OST.

About the Maryland Network

Yes

The Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership (MAP) works to ensure every child in Massachusetts has equal access to high-quality out-of-school time programming after school, before school and during the summer months.

About the Massachusetts Network

Yes

The Michigan After-School Partnership (MASP) provides statewide leadership to build and sustain high-quality afterschool programs for children and youth in all communities throughout the state.

About the Michigan Network

Yes

Ignite Afterschool advances policy and reserach, promotes quality afterschool programming and strengthens partnerships to ensure that all of Minnesota's youth have access to out-of-school learning opportunities that help them successfully learn, develop and contribute.

About the Minnesota Network

Yes

The Missouri AfterSchool Network (MASN) builds systems across the state that improve, support, and sustain high quality afterschool programs.

About the Missouri Network

Yes

The mission of Beyond School Bells - Nebraska's Statewide Afterschool Network - is to improve access to and quality of Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) by building partnerships, working toward smarter state and local policy, increasing conversations and engaging educators and parents.

About the Nebraska Network

Yes

The Nevada Afterschool Network (NAN) serves as a hub for advocacy, public awareness, collaboration, and partnerships to advance out-of-school time programming.

About the Nevada Network

Yes

The New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition (NJSACC) promotes and supports the development, continuity and expansion of quality programs for children and youth during out-of-school time (OST).

About the New Jersey Network

Yes

NMOST brings together policymakers, educators, childcare providers, youth development workers, and other stakeholders interested in ensuring positive youth development opportunities and outcomes through out-of-school time programs.

NMOST established a leadership council with diverse members from across the state whose role it is to guide the implementation of a statewide, strategic plan focused on out-of-school time program quality, public awareness of the benefits of a quality out-of-school time experience, advocacy and policy development, professional development, linked learning strategies, and partnership development.

STEM: The New Mexico STEM Network employs design principles to accelerate STEM student achievement and drive STEM workforce development in New Mexico.

About the New Mexico Network

Yes

The New York State Network for Youth Success - formerly ASW: NYSAN - works to strengthen the capacity and commitment of communities, programs and professionals to increase access to high-quality programs and services beyond the traditional classroom.

About the New York Network

Yes

NC CAP is a clearinghouse for the latest research, current trends, and hot topics in the afterschool and expanded learning field. Professional development or technical assistance, leadership growth, applying for funding, improving the quality of your program, or looking for different resources to improve your program.

The North Carolina Healthy Out-of-School Time Recognition Program (NC HOST) launched in April 2017 and offers a voluntary recognition for out-of-school time programs that meet a set of standards that are a subset of the National AfterSchool Association Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Standards (HEPA).

The Roadmap of Need uses data on health, youth behavior and safety, education and economic development to assess the relative well-being of young people living in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties.

The Oklahoma Partnership for Expanded Learning is a collaboration of agencies and organizations throughout Oklahoma which helps build and expand school-based programs to enhance learning opportunities for students, and provides technical assistance to new and established programs.

About the Oklahoma Network

Yes

OregonASK is a collaboration of public and private organizations and community members which seek to address common issues and concerns across all out-of-school time services – child care, recreation, education and youth development.

About the Oregon Network

Yes

The Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool/Youth Development Network (PSAYDN) promotes sustainable, high-quality out-of-school time (OST) youth development programs through advocacy and capacity building to enhance the welfare of Pennsylvania’s children, youth and families.

About the Pennsylvania Network

Yes

The mission of the South Carolina Afterschool Alliance is to raise awareness, increase sustainability, and promote the importance of quality afterschool and summer learning programs.

About the South Carolina Network

Yes

The South Dakota Afterschool Network continues to build an afterschool and summer learning system that improves outcomes for children and youth through school-based or school-linked afterschool programs.

About the South Dakota Network

Yes

Quality

The goal of the Utah Afterschool Program Quality Assessment and Improvement Tool and Action Plan is to assist afterschool programs at any stage of development, appraise their progress in four quality areas, and to promote relevant training and other strategies for ongoing program improvement.

Policy

UAN works to connect key decision makers and resources to establish statewide structures that foster policies committed to funding and sustaining quality afterschool/out-of-school time programming.

Professional Learning

The Utah Afterschool Professional Development Incentive is one key way to develop workforce and program quality. The Incentive provides an aligned professional development system that provides supportive coursework, a registry to track professional accomplishments and a system of professional recognition.

UAN’s OST Specialists are dedicated to providing this technical assistance to programs throughout the State of Utah. They will mentor, coach and consult program staff to better themselves and their programs.

About the Utah Network

Yes

The Vermont Afterschool Inc. is a public-private statewide partnership dedicated to supporting and sustaining innovative learning opportunities that extend beyond the school day for all Vermont’s children and youth.

Guide local and state level OST policy to coordinate resources that lead to sustainable OST programs.

Develop and implement a public policy agenda and engagement plan for policy makers.

Quality

Establish a set of standards, ethics, and core competencies that are recognized statewide for high quality OST programs.

Develop best practices, core competencies, and an ethic statement to guide high quality programming.

Develop opportunities for organizations, agencies, providers, and youth to review and approve the quality model.

Develop and implement a procedure for the endorsement or adoption of the quality model.

Develop professional development resources that support the quality model.

Develop a process for evaluating the impact of quality standards.

About the Virginia Network

Yes

The Washington Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) Network is a formal statewide collaboration which serves as the action arm for SOWA and is designed to improve the availability and quality of afterschool, youth development and summer programs in Washington.

About the Washington Network

Yes

The West Virginia Statewide Afterschool Network (WVSAN) promotes the development and sustainability of high-quality out-of-school time (OST) programs for school-age children and youth.

About the West Virginia Network

Yes

The Wyoming Afterschool Alliance (WYAA) was created to support and promote quality school-based and school-linked afterschool programs focused upon improving positive youth outcomes for youth and families throughout the state.

About the Wyoming Network

Yes

The Wisconsin Afterschool Network (WAN) works to improve outcomes for children and youth through school-aged afterschool programs.

About the Wisconsin Network

Yes

The New Hampshire Afterschool Network (NHAN) is a partnership of local and state organizations, collaborative groups and other stakeholders joined together around a common vision to actively engage in the development of sustainable systems that adequately meets the unique needs of all youth in New Hampshire during OST hours.

About the New Hampshire Network

Yes

The Texas Partnership for Out of School Time (TXPOST) is a statewide network of nonprofit, public and private sector partners dedicated to increasing the quality and availability of out of school time (OST) opportunities for Texas youth.

About the Texas Network

Yes

The Montana Afterschool Alliance (MTAA) serves as the champion for afterschool programming and expanded learning opportunities in the state of Montana.

About the Montana Network

Yes

The District of Columbia does not currently have a Mott-funded afterschool network.

About the District of Columbia Network

No

On behalf of school-age youth, the North Dakota Afterschool Network supports and advocates for high-quality, out-of-school time programming, resources and services.

About the North Dakota Network

Yes

The Alabama Afterschool Community Network (ALACN) works to ensure Alabama youth, families, and communities have access to high quality programming during Out-of-School time that promotes positive development and life-long learning.

About the Alabama Network

Yes

The Colorado Afterschool Partnership is one of fifty statewide afterschool networks and partnership states that comprise the National Network of Statewide Afterschool Networks, funded in part by the Mott Foundation.

About the Colorado Network

Yes

The mission of the Tennessee Afterschool Network is to support children, youth, families and communities by advocating and building capacity with a unified voice for sustainable investments in safe, healthy and nurturing afterschool experiences.

About the Tennessee Network

Yes

The Idaho Afterschool Network’s (IAN) mission is to ensure Idaho’s youth have access to high quality out-of-school (OOS) programs. The IAN officially kicked off in October of 2014 after a year of laser-focused planning.

About the Idaho Network

Yes

The Delaware Afterschool Network, along with its partners, will work to: create a long-term policy voice for afterschool programs; support policies that bolster high quality programs; and increase public awareness regarding afterschool programs.

About the Delaware Network

Yes

The Mississippi Statewide Afterschool Network envisions a state where all children have access to high-quality, safe, and affordable programming that supports successful academic and positive social outcomes for students, parents, schools, and communities.

About the Mississippi Network

Yes

The Alaska Afterschool Network (AAN) is the only statewide organization dedicated to increasing afterschool and expanded learning opportunities for school-age children, youth and families in Alaska.

About the Alaska Network

Yes

The Hawaii Afterschool Alliance is a newly formed organization working on sustainability, quality and policy change to expand learning opportunities for all children and youth in Hawaii.